History
Sangō Station opened on 2 April 1905 at Sangō-chō Sakae, Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture. Freight handling ended in fiscal 1962, the station building was rebuilt on 24 March 1984, and from a 1996 timetable revision the bulk of early-morning departures shifted to the adjacent Owari-Asahi Station, leaving Sangō with only three each-station starting trains in the morning. A south gate facing the Sakaemachi-bound platform opened on 4 October 2001, and on 8 December 2006 an east gate was added on the Owari-Seto-bound platform; the Tranpass system was introduced on 16 December 2006, the Manaca IC card on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass operation ended on 29 February 2012. On 26 March 2020 simple automatic announcements and LED arrival indicators were introduced.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Sangō has three ticket gates (north, south, and east), the most of any station on the Meitetsu Seto Line; the south and east gates have no station staff and use intercoms and automatic adjustment machines, while passengers with non-magnetic tickets such as commemorative tickets can have their tickets verified remotely by staff at the north gate or at Ōzone Station via a confirmation camera.